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Farkas, Illes wrote:
Hello,
A question about
http://download.wikimedia.org/*/latest. Is it
possible to reconstruct a snapshot for a given day from
pages-meta-history?
To a certain degree, though there are some difficulties with making an
*exact* snapshot. The primary complications are:
* Page renames -- reliably determining which page was at which title on
which date might be tricky if it's been moved around
* Deletions -- obviously anything that's been deleted since won't be in
your reconstructed snapshot
* Images and templates -- changes to images and templates per above
complicate the reconstruction of pages which use them
- -- brion
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